@article{R_2020, title={Lifestyle of Ancient Maruthaa People}, volume={2}, url={https://irjt.iorpress.org/index.php/irjt/article/view/27}, DOI={10.34256/irjt2033}, abstractNote={<p>The life of the ancient Tamil people belonging to various community groups is based upon five different land forms. Their life is based on the Mountains, later they created new forest land and developed that forest in to Paalai and Neydhal field in their respective highs and lows. The people those lived in Paalai and Neydhal were the leaders of that particular land. Similarly, Uzhavan and Uzathiyar were the leaders of the Marutham land. The ancient literature also depicts that there were other people belonging to Kalamar, Thozhuvar, Mallar, Kambalar, Vinaingar, Uzhavar, Kadaingar, Kilainger, Sidhalar and Mezhiyar lived in the Marutham land. This article mainly focuses on the lifestyle, cultural movements and occupations of the ancient people and also tries to find out if there is any discrimination based on the casteism among the ancient population.</p>}, number={3}, journal={International Research Journal of Tamil}, author={R, Sankar}, year={2020}, month={May}, pages={28-38} }